When the cabaret director tries to sell Sett al-Kul to a nouveau riche enriched by the 1948 Arab—Israeli War, she and Karawan refuse the dishonor and slap the patron, resulting in their expulsion to join the rest of the unemployed musicians.
Karawan suggests that Abu al-Khair come work for the latter's colleague, Maestro Bulbul (Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy), the talented leader of a large performing troupe holding forth at the Nefertiti Theater.
Sett al-Kul is evicted by Umm Gemmayze, but Karawan and Sobia hire a cabbie named Tosca (Mohammed El-Bakkar) to kidnap Adnan Bey and Nargis and bring them in to tell the truth about their situation.
Maher Zuhdi wrote in July 2015 in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida that: Naima Akef was traumatized by the death of Camelia…She blamed herself after attacking Camelia on the set of [1950 film] My Father Is a Groom…Hussein Fawzi confessed to having made her jealous on purpose to test her resilience to star in his next movie, Furigat.
[8]Waseem Afifi wrote for the website تراثيات (“Heritage”) the article “زوج نعيمة عاكف الموهوب الذي لم ينال الشهرة” (“Naima Akef’s Talented Husband, Who Did Not Achieve Fame”): Hussein Fawzi…one of the great directors who, despite their talent, did not find fame compared to his contemporaries…The year 1949 is considered a turning point in his life when he met actress Naima Akef, who was raised in her family’s circus since her birth in 1922...Fascinated by belly dance, she became the star of the KitKat Club in Cairo at the age of sixteen…Director Abbas Kamel, Fawzi’s brother, brought him to watch her perform, beginning an endless fascination of Fawzi’s with performing arts such as dancing, singing, acrobatics, acting, and the circus.Afifi notes the director's work to bring Akef's potential to the silver screen as “a slum girl seeking to employ her family in the theatre in the movie Furigat.” Continuing to narrate the director and his star's artistic and personal relationship, he writes: He presented her in 1957 in the role of an exotic Roma who falls in love with a wealthy young man in Tamr Henna, and in 1958 as a girl in the Al-Alam neighborhood on Mohammed Ali Street in I Love You, Hassan, the couple’s last collaboration before their divorce.